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January 23, 2011 07:24:52pm |
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Re: Superbowl 45 Packers - Steelers |
"What you have here is a support group for middle aged blokes who are steering through their collective mid-life crisis by recalling the by-gone days of their "Rock n Roll" fantasies while adopting Shakespearean complexes."
Pretty ironic from the guy who in the previous sentence laments the lack of an iconic '60s rock and roller for the SB half time show. My 15 year old son, as i was taking him to that Falcons game last week, was making the comment how great it was that they got an act in there for the Super Bowl that wasn't some over-the-hill white rocker. I suspect he is not alone in his thinking. Welcome to the mid-life crisis club!!
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DeadRed1971 |
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January 23, 2011 08:23:17pm |
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Re: Superbowl 45 Packers - Steelers |
Kochman is just looking for attention, that's all.
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William Tell |
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January 24, 2011 05:03:48am |
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When you're as screwed up as I am in, I would trade places with ANYONE lucky enough to "just be in a mid-life crisis"! And, I figure a "Shakesperian" complex is better than a poke in the eye...
What I've never understood when someone describes what some of us are "doing here", that the truth is, it could be far worse...the above description is no insult to me.
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ringolevio |
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January 24, 2011 05:18:46am |
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Re: Superbowl 45 Packers - Steelers |
Just what I was thinking, what the heck does he have against pathetic midlife crisis support groups. (Though we aren't all blokes.) I'm already getting nostalgic for my midlife crisis which I think may be nearly over ... some day not far off my midlife crisis is going to look like the good old days.
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robthewordsmith |
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January 24, 2011 05:50:38am |
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My life seems to consist of effortless segues from one crisis to another, the midlife one being just one more station along the way.
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ringolevio |
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January 24, 2011 06:44:09am |
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Re: Superbowl 45 Packers - Steelers |
I'm guessing that people who jeer at other people's midlife crises are just entering their own, or seguing into theirs not so effortlessly, or nervously see it coming up on the horizon, and haven't yet learned to roll with the punches. (There's some mixed metaphors for you; just need WT to add lizard-sniffing dogs.)
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robthewordsmith |
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January 24, 2011 07:30:24am |
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Re: Superbowl 45 Packers - Steelers |
William Tell and the Lizard Sniffing Dogs.
Now, you'd pay to see that band play wouldn't you?
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ringolevio |
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January 24, 2011 07:38:29am |
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Re: Superbowl 45 Packers - Steelers |
Lol, oh that would be terrific!
instead of ratdog, lizarddog!
This post was modified by ringolevio on 2011-01-24 15:38:29
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William Tell |
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January 24, 2011 06:01:29am |
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Ha! I'll never forget when I was young professor at a new school in which it was really crisis mode day in and day out...the strange thing about those situations is that of course, you "bond" with the folks that you go thru it with (in this case, a bunch of my dear lady friends--yes, ahem, they were, er are!--that were in the behavioral sciences) are the ones that you end up feeling like you've been "to Hell and back" with...one of the "feminist, leftist, Marxist" sorts said to me one day, "we'll meet on campus in 20 yrs, hug and say, 'remember the good ol days?' ya know!"
And, amazingly, it happened just the other day...some of those professors that fought the good fight (too long a story) are in fact, "dead and gone", but I never thought at the time I'd look back with such feelings about it, now. But I do.
BTW, I love everyone of those leftist, feminist Markist sorts.
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ringolevio |
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January 24, 2011 06:46:57am |
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Has a "Some of my best friends are ..." sound to it ...
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William Tell |
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January 24, 2011 09:35:47am |
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Yup; but in this case I really mean it...and in fact, share alot of the commonalities, for different reasons, that they derived from those schools of thought, etc.
Hope that makes more sense than it appears.
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robthewordsmith |
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January 24, 2011 09:46:41am |
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"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
I've honestly never been able to see the flaw in that as a statement of ideals. Of course, by changing 'needs' to 'work' the Soviets totally undermined and subverted Marx's philosophy.
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William Tell |
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January 24, 2011 01:12:13pm |
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Yes indeed; I find it awk when describing these truly lovely ladies, but they were all "born of the 60s" (five of them that I was close to, all 5-10 yrs older than me), and for sociology, that meant they were heavily engaged with/immersed in the almost cliche'd stereo-typed schools of thought that those times forged for many women scholars, and I do them a great disservice to term them "my leftist leaning, feminist/Marxist sociologists" friends, but for those such as yourself, it probably (hopefully) conveys the appropriate image of what many of them shared with respect to world views...? They, equally lovingly (I presume!), described me as "...our little Edward Abbey loving, Darwinian atheist..."
Not far off the mark, eh?
And by the way, good evening to you, Rob! BTW, ck your email for more on the wildlife of the Sonoran Desert...
This post was modified by William Tell on 2011-01-24 21:12:13
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